Kalakan is a dynamic Basque trio
from northwest France. Dynamic enough, that after being blown away by
their performance at her birthday party, Madonna invited them to join
her 2012 MDMA tour ensemble!

Massive thanks to our illustrious engineers Sigtor Kjetså of NRK, Norway's national broadcasting service and Janko Johann of COSMO, the multi-cultural service of German broadcaster WDR, as well as to NRK host / producer Sigbjørn Nedland, and to Gaurav Narula of Piranha, the venerable German world music record label, creative content producers and producers of WOMEX.

Kalakan & Alexander Arkhincheev:
Kantuz
/ Mendeala
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(1:38:00 Pop‑up)
This song and the next four songs are from Kalakan's forthcoming album with Buryat (Mongolian) musician Alexander Arkhincheev (who is also leader of the cross-genre / cross-cultural band Shono). This song and the next two songs are from Kalakan's repertoire but the are joined by Arkhincheev on these versions.

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@slugluv:1313: There's an an West African market/store near my office where I got the curry powder. I looked at a half dozen recipes online and put the ingredients I'd prefer in the amounts to my tastes. First time attempting. After a few times, I can cook a dish w/o a recipe....

I have to admit, I'm only familiar w/ the Basque avant-garde, I'm ignorant of Basque folk (hard to find). Thanks, Rob and our Kalakan friends! (don't know a lick of Basque, one of the more impenetrable languages.

Well I do love Bacalao too - but of course Bacalao in Basque is bakailaoa - here's a recipe (c/o of Smithsonian folklife festival which in 2016 featured Basque culture, in fact Kalakan appeared there): festival.si.edu...